Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [conj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Case studies showed that employers made savings arising ‘ mainly from temporary workers having less beneficial ( or no ) entitlement to holiday and sickness pay , and particularly to occupational pensions ’ ( Meager , 1986 , p. 12 ) . |
| 2 | The story goes that Blackburn chairman Jack Walker was unimpressed by Thomas 's contribution in the 3–3 draw at Selhurst Park and refused to sign another of his famous cheques with all those zeros . |
| 3 | The story goes that James Gilbey , pulled into a lay-by somewhere in Oxfordshire on New Years Eve 1989 and used his car phone to call the Royal residence at Sandringham in Norfolk . |
| 4 | The story goes that James Gilbey , pulled into a lay-by somewhere in Oxfordshire on New Years Eve 1989 and used his car phone to call the Royal residence at Sandringham in Norfolk . |
| 5 | The story goes that Ghar Hasan was used by a Saracen , over eight hundred years ago , as a hiding place , to avoid expulsion . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the Oscar-winning designer of Gotham City , Anton Furst ( see FACE 5 ) , has been hired by Columbia Pictures ' new silly money bosses Jon peters and Peter Guber to make the old MGM film lot cosy for them . |
| 7 | Queen Victoria thinks that Grace Darling is one of the finest young women in this country , and she is writing to thank her . |
| 8 | The opportunity arose when Michael Barry , the BBC 's longstanding Head of Drama , resigned in 1961 to join the new Irish television network , Telefis Eireann in Dublin . |
| 9 | At last her opportunity arose when Collin Brooks , a friend of both Eliot and her own family , suggested that she apply for the post of Eliot 's secretary which had fallen vacant . |
| 10 | Finally , there is strong evidence to show that humus in the soil can confer a remarkable degree of resistance to plant and animal pests and diseases . |
| 11 | Plexus Software Inc , the image processing software specialist based in Swindon , Wiltshire in the UK , has announced two new workflow automation products ImageFlow and Case Management Application — CMA . |
| 12 | At its sister hotel , L'Hotel , also in Toronto , $25,000 was saved in one year when it swapped its 40W fluorescent tubes for 30W tubes ; the Hotel Vancouver has installed a computer to monitor and control energy use throughout the building and received a $19,000 rebate from the power company in one month ; and the Hotel Macdonald , Alberta , is saving $1000 a month on waste collection . |
| 13 | The Pentagon announced that women pilots in the navy and air force would be allowed to fly combat aircraft within the next few months . |
| 14 | Add to this , expensive new headquarters developed as property prices tumbled , government intervention , a threat to its monopoly position and criticism from some customers and you have a difficult brew to drink . |
| 15 | Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear insists that Vinnie Jones will bounce back tomorrow at Middlesbrough after his huge £20,000 FA fine this week . |
| 16 | Police officers like Sergeant Allan Peters and Inspector Graham Smith became avuncular father figures , defusing tricky situations and deflating overweening subjects alike with a joke or a crisp command . |
| 17 | The partners have taken the pay cut until next March to see if interest rates fall and to wait for the launch of a new product . |
| 18 | His platelet count begn to fall and bone marrow biopsy showed viral haemophagocytic syndrome . |
| 19 | She and sister agreed that Mr Brown would need additional help . |
| 20 | Er just for the record Chairman to confirm that Selby District has no argument with the County Council on the Greater York . |
| 21 | Teenager Milla Jovovich revealed that Sir Richard promised her backside would not be shown in a bedroom scene . |
| 22 | Now for instance using that A P I , I could write a piece of C code , a piece of Three G L , which could access the database as if it was local to my machine on the client . |
| 23 | overseas operations treated as delivery pipelines to unified global market |
| 24 | Under this Mrs Thatcher and Dr FitzGerald agreed that Northern Ireland would remain a part of the United Kingdom according to the wishes of its majority , but that ministers from Britain and the Republic would meet regularly to review political and security aspects . |
| 25 | The Supreme Court and the Senate in Venezuela ruled that President Carlos Andres Perez must face trial on corruption charges . |
| 26 | Gascoigne replied within a minute with a close-range effort and as Lazio piled on the pressure in the second half they were rewarded with five minutes to go when Cristiano Bergodi headed home . |
| 27 | With an hour to go before Betty Boothroyd faced her destiny , I suggested to a leading Tory fixer that his party was in a bit of a pucker over who its preferred candidate should be . |
| 28 | In it we incredulously quoted a Guardian story suggesting that Bishop Auckland born Meale defending a tiny Labour majority in Mansfield bore a resemblance to Clark Gable . |
| 29 | With hindsight it seems that the prevailing structures of police practice will remain as powerful as ever , for at a conference on policing at Bristol University ( 1988 ) , the newly retired Sir Kenneth admitted that police culture had defeated many of his attempts to bring a new ethic to the managerial style during his reign as commissioner of the metropolis . |
| 30 | Cleo sighed , and opened her mouth to speak , but at that moment the door to the parlour creaked and Drago Dratslinger and his mistress brought in the meal they had prepared for their guests , and the talk turned to that of wood and spirits , of how to trap a wandering soul . |